Providing an overview of Britain between 1850 and 1979, with an emphasis on the Scottish dimension, this book tackles the political themes of ideology, identity and authority, wet within a wider social and economic context. It contains a wide range of illustrations, documentary sources and views of an historian and addresses all the key issues of the syllabus requirements.

 

This book is part of a book series called Higher Grade History .

There are 216 pages in this book. This book was published 1992 by Pearson Schools .

This book has the following chapters: Part 1 The Victorian and Edwardian context: how and why has British society changed 1850-1914; towards democracy?; political parties; political power in action; a united kingdom? Part 2 The 20th-century context: how and why has British society changed 1914-1979; towards democracy?; political parties; political power in action; a united kingdom?